Extending the Business Network Approach New Territories, New Technol

Contributing pioneering new research, this innovative book proposes new ways and directions in which to extend the influential ‘business networks perspective’ approach to doing business. While previous research has focused upon relationships with customer

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EXTENDING THE BUSINESS NETWORK APPROACH New Territories, New Technologies, New Terms

Extending the Business Network Approach

Peter Thilenius • Cecilia Pahlberg • Virpi Havila Editors

Extending the Business Network Approach New Territories, New Technologies, New Terms

Editors Peter Thilenius Department of Business Studies Uppsala University Uppsala, Sweden

Virpi Havila Department of Business Studies Uppsala University Uppsala, Sweden

Cecilia Pahlberg Department of Business Studies Uppsala University Uppsala, Sweden

ISBN 978-1-137-53763-8 ISBN 978-1-137-53765-2 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-53765-2

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To Amjad with much appreciation

Acknowledgements

We would like to express our heartfelt thanks to all participants in the Symposium on Extending the Business Network Approach, which took place in June 2013 in Uppsala. The symposium gathered 55 researchers who over the years have been engaged in the development of the business network approach. During the symposium, we discussed the different directions research on business networks has been extended in. These discussions inspired us to initiate a process that now has developed into this book. It has been a pleasure to work with you all, and we are pleased to present several of you as authors of different chapters in this book. We are also very grateful to Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation and the Tore Browaldh Foundation for the financial support, without which the symposium and this book could not have been realised. Finally, we would